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• While listening to a source, press
AUTO
SURR
to select the Stream Direct mode.
• AUTOSURR. – See Auto playback on
page 28.
• DIRECT – Sources are heard according to
the settings made in the Surround Setup
(speaker setting, channel level, speaker
distance), as well as with dual mono,
Center Width, Dimension and Panorama
settings. You will hear sources according
to the number of channels in the signal.
For analog sources, only Channel Level can
be set. All other digital processing can not
be set.
Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ
•Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the
Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting)
You can listen to sources using the Acoustic
Calibration Equalization set in Automatically
setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on
page 8 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 38.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
• While listening to a source, press
ACOUSTIC EQ.
Press repeatedly to select between:
• ALL CH – No special weighting is given to
any one channel.
• F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in
accordance with the front speaker settings.
• CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings
• EQ OFF – Switches Acoustic Calibration
EQ off.
The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights
when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.
1
Using surround back channel
processing
•Default setting: SB ON
You can have the receiver automatically use
6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you
can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for
example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1
encoded sources, a surround back channel
will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was
originally encoded (in which case, you can
simply switch surround back processing off).
2
The table below indicates when you will hear
the surround back channel (
=Sound plays
through surround back speaker(s)).
•Press
SB ch
(
SB ch PROCESSING
) to select
a surround back channel option.
Each press cycles through the following:
• SB ON – 6.1 decoding is always used (for
example, a surround back channel will be
generated for 5.1 encoded material)
• SB AUTO – Automatically switches to 6.1
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)
• SB OFF – Maximum 5.1 playback
SOUND
RETRIEVER
DIALOG
C/CS
ACOUSTIC EQPHASE
Note
1 • You can’t use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, Stream Direct mode, WMA9 Pro or XM HD Surround, and it has no
effect with headphones.
• You can only select SB AUTO when Stream Direct mode is on and the surround back speaker is set to LARGE or SMALL in
speaker settings.
2 You can’t use the surround back channel with headphones, the Stereo, Front Stage Surround Advance mode, or if the surround
back speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on page 41. Also, the Surround back speaker setting on page 35 must be set to
Normal (SB) to hear the surround back channel.
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